10 Hacks For When You Need A Little Extra Willpower

February 6, 2015 1:19 PM

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Willpower. It's something we all have, in varying quantities. It's the essence of our self-control. It allows us to recognize the right decisions to make, and then make them. And it fails -- a lot of the time.

Sure, we all agree with Mahatma Gandhi's famous saying, “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will,” but that doesn't mean we maintain that mental toughness the way we would like to 100 percent of the time. And with good reason: According to Roy Baumeister, a r...